Kentucky Lottery had record sales in fiscal 2013

2:27 AM,
Jul. 27, 2013

A customer at a convenience store holds her Mega Millions lottery tickets Friday, March 30, 2012, in Portland, Ore. Lottery ticket lines across the U.S. swelled Friday as players drawn by a record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot took a chance at becoming an overnight millionaire. The jackpot odds were at 1 in 176 million. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Boosted by a huge Powerball jackpot run, brisk scratchoff ticket business and a recovering economy, the Kentucky Lottery on Friday reported record sales last fiscal year and payment of a record dividend to the state's treasury.

"A better economy means people have more disposable income" to spend on the lottery, Arch Gleason, the lottery corporation president and CEO, said in an interview after a lottery board meeting in Louisville where the sales figures were released.

The Kentucky Lottery announced that sales for fiscal 2013, which ended June 30, reached $846.6 million -- breaking the ...